Serious Implications for the Future of MMO's

[MrSparkle001]

Imagine an MMORPG of a massive city.. and the Rogue’s guild is entirely run by players. Where the city has an entire political system that is populated by players who were elected by the playerbase.

Knowing how people are on the internet and in MMOs I think it would be a nightmare. In theory his ideas are good but in practice they would be ruined by the very players he wants to run MMOs.

It also sounds like he's trying to justify spending less money on development. Just let the players create content right? STO does it and I think Neverwinter. I don't like it myself. I rarely do foundry missions.

[Nuggie]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Knowing how people are on the internet and in MMOs I think it would be a nightmare. In theory his ideas are good but in practice they would be ruined by the very players he wants to run MMOs.

It also sounds like he's trying to justify spending less money on development. Just let the players create content right? STO does it and I think Neverwinter. I don't like it myself. I rarely do foundry missions.

For those not in the landmark beta: there are a lot of really neat things being built by the playerbase. I think we will see some extraordinary things when they start letting us do community builds. I haven't seen/heard of any trolling going on. Although I'm sure it will come.

[MrSparkle001]

Originally Posted by Nuggie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For those not in the landmark beta: there are a lot of really neat things being built by the playerbase. I think we will see some extraordinary things when they start letting us do community builds. I haven't seen/heard of any trolling going on. Although I'm sure it will come.

Creating content can be a good thing, I mean I've seen content some players have created that rival or beat the developer's official content. I see it all time in single player mods. Part of the question will be if that content comes in the form of actual content added to the world or if it's available as "outside" content like STO's foundry missions.

The nightmare comes from players being actively involved in the managing of the game.

[Ahldagor]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Knowing how people are on the internet and in MMOs I think it would be a nightmare. In theory his ideas are good but in practice they would be ruined by the very players he wants to run MMOs.

It also sounds like he's trying to justify spending less money on development. Just let the players create content right? STO does it and I think Neverwinter. I don't like it myself. I rarely do foundry missions.

remove anonymity of the player then people might think about it more, but you are right in that it would be a nightmare.

Originally Posted by Nuggie [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

For those not in the landmark beta: there are a lot of really neat things being built by the playerbase. I think we will see some extraordinary things when they start letting us do community builds. I haven't seen/heard of any trolling going on. Although I'm sure it will come.

the trolling will come, but not in the beta because the true troll will want to grief as many people as possible.

[mrgoochio]

Until VR doesn't constitute strapping 1.5pounds (oculus rift + average headphones) on your head, VR wont be mainstream. People hardly like wearing 3D glasses in theaters let alone in their living rooms. The rift and headphones? Maybe as a novelty for an hour. Don't even get me started on the omni going mainstream.

Developers hardly consider developing for NVIDIA 3d Vision. To get games in an acceptable playable state with 3D vision, they mostly have to convert their gui elements to 3d objects. They don't even do that. Rift support will only be worse.

[Bamz4l]

Originally Posted by Grimfan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Just thought I'd leave this here: http://smedsblog.com/

I feel like this is the direction EQ Next and most of the other MMO's coming out in the future really need to go. Eve has such a sustainable formula, but without the PC's the game world really feels lifeless. If they can somehow make the NPC's also feel like they have a true purpose in the world we might be looking at some pretty crazy stuff coming up in the next year or two.

The idea that you have a guild your character belongs to, like a merchant guild or a guild like the Merchants of Qeynos guild we have on this server that patrols a path and keeps the road safe for caravans... the idea that you could have an entirely separate guild that is built around taking those caravans from the previous guild... just imagine the implications and the player decisions.

Really looking forward to the future of MMO's.

and imagine those caravans were filled with bricks, owned by a guild, being sent out to be used in their new guild settlement